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GitOps with Argo CD: A Practical Kubernetes Guide
Git becomes your deployment interface. With Argo CD, every change goes through a pull request, every rollback is a git revert, and the cluster continuously reconciles toward what Git says it should be.
10 Feb 202510 min read
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EKS Platform Engineering — Deploying and Scaling Applications on Kubernetes
The cluster is running. Now we put it to work. The decisions behind packaging with Helm, scaling with HPA, routing through an ALB, and keeping secrets out of Git.
20 Jan 20257 min read